bloganuary
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This question called my attention, and at first my answers were more…superficial. I thought of things like skydiving, paragliding, surfing and all the extreme sports I’m terrified of. Each time I would brush it off and would come back to writing a book, the thought almost too quick to take it seriously. I didn’t want
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Reading the replies to this prompt, the funny ones, weird ones, traditional ones make me realize how lucky and fortunate one should consider themselves to be able to say they have family traditions to share. Family traditions imply that to some degree, your family was…..well….together and got along to some extent. It implies that you
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List five things you do for fun. 1. Watch anime. I always loved it but I couldn’t afford it as a kid and as an adult I have all streaming services and binge on Anime for fun. 2. Read. For the same reasons as above, I never had access to books, so now I splurge
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Ever since I can remember I always loved reading and writing. The idea that someone would be hanging on every single word I wrote as I told a story that came out of everything or anything rattling in my head has always been my dream. I considered writing a book many times, then that feeling
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I’d remove the word from every dictionary. It would save many lives, prevent many wars, rid the world of so much hate, discontent and inadequacy. Sure we are human, and we will not prevent all hate, wars, and discontent, but even one religious war would be worth it. I like to think that faith in humanity
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I am not talking at home economics where they focus on child rearing and cooking. We are way beyond that and now find ourselves in a place where young adults don’t understand basic adulting functions. So how about, offer a summer course (To take when schools are out) where people are taken through a curriculum
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Patience was not something I had growing up, nor was it ever granted to me by others. As I transitioned into adulthood, angry and resentful, I had to allow good and kind people to love me properly, I found that those who were patient with me would turn out to be the same people who
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What colleges have you attended? I earned an associates degree in accounting at the age of 8 while helping my mom translate all of her bills and statements from Spanish to English, speaking to bill collectors and asking the property manager on our behalf for a discounts or extensions on rent. At age 10 I
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Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? When I was a kid, I was undocumented. My earliest memories revolve around my mother crossing the border illegally and me being brought along as she worked as a street vendor in LA. So, my job was to watch my baby brother while
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Sometimes, when I feel like all is going right in my life, along comes a person who will evoke the most negative reactions in me. Their words or actions cut through the perfectly curated armor I’ve spent the last 20 years of my life building and it happens without warning. Suddenly my trauma returns, the
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